HVAC rebates & incentives in SW Washington and Oregon: what's real right now

Start with the headline that's real: rebates of up to $1,600 are available on qualifying gas furnace installations — our standing offer, listed on our promotions page. The amount your project qualifies for depends on the equipment installed and program eligibility, and we confirm both and handle the paperwork as part of the job.

Where does a number like that come from? SW Washington sits in an unusual spot: Energy Trust of Oregon's Savings Within Reach program extends to Washington residents of Clark, Skamania, and Klickitat counties who heat with NW Natural gas — and its published incentive for a high-efficiency gas furnace (95%+ AFUE, home's primary heat source) is $1,600 for income-qualified customers. Standard-track incentives at lower amounts also exist, and NW Natural's offers page lists additional savings through its Preferred Contractor network. Every track has its own eligibility fine print, which is exactly why we verify your project against current program terms rather than let a website guess for you.

If your home is electrically heated — electric furnace, baseboards, wall heaters, or an existing heat pump — Clark Public Utilities runs two verified programs:

• Heat Pump Program: rebates between $500 and $1,250, depending on the heat pump type and your existing heating method — the largest amounts go to electric forced-air furnace conversions to variable-speed heat pumps.
• Ductless Heat Pump Program: a $900 rebate for qualifying single- or multi-head ductless systems in homes currently heated with an electric furnace or electric zonal heat.

Two conditions matter before you count on either: the installing contractor must participate in the utility's Contractor Network, and the utility notes that program requirements and rebate amounts can change without notice. The equally important flip side: these rebates target electric-heat conversions — a gas-furnace-to-heat-pump conversion generally doesn't qualify, a distinction our conversion guide covers honestly.

For our Portland-metro customers in Gresham, Troutdale, and Portland itself, Energy Trust of Oregon runs heat pump incentives for customers of participating utilities (Portland General Electric, Pacific Power, NW Natural, Cascade Natural Gas, and Avista), alongside its furnace and weatherization offers. Amounts vary by equipment, income tier, and utility, and Energy Trust updates its incentive sheets regularly — so rather than print a figure that may be stale by the time you read it, we check the current Oregon numbers when we quote your project. Home Energy Group is licensed in Oregon (CCB# 184255), so cross-river projects get the same rebate legwork.

It ended. The federal Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit (Section 25C) — the credit that covered qualifying heat pumps, furnaces, and ACs for several years — applies only to property placed in service before December 31, 2025, per the IRS. If a sales pitch in 2026 still dangles a federal tax credit for a standard HVAC install, that's a red flag about the rest of the pitch too.

We keep this page honest the same way we keep quotes honest: real programs, verified terms, and "ask us about current rebates" where the truth is genuinely project-specific. Call (360) 944-8616 and we'll tell you what your install qualifies for today — not what a program used to pay last year.